User Experience Design feedback

For my User Experience Design unit I have received an overall grade of 2:1 which I am happy with, as I have really worked hard to produce the work to high standards.

Term one was a project about Stagecoach app design which could be accessed at: Stagecoach App 

Term two was a recorded  12 minutes presentation about Virgin Pioneers website, working closely with Jonny Evans  at Reason Digital. This presentation included my research and findings of the whole process which were Expert Review,  Guerilla Testing,  Eye Tracking and suggestions of improvements.

I will definitely consider UX as my career option once I graduate.  Watch this space!

 

Virgin Pioneers- User Experience Design

For my second assignment in User Experience Design unit at university,  I was required to apply a variety of User Experience Design techniques to evaluate and critique Virgin Media Pioneers web interface, making recommendations for improvements and adjustments.

My mentor for this project was Jonny Evans  who is Head of Design & UX at Reason Digital, based in Manchester. He has given me exceptional advice, tips and knowledge throughout this project around the principles and techniques of User Experience Design.

This project included Expert Review(Cognitive Walkthrough & Heuristic Evaluation), Guerilla Testing, Eye Tracking and Final analysis and summary.(Improvements)

The outcome for this project I was required to do a 12-14 minutes recorded presentation about the process of this project.

Overall, I really enjoyed this project and picked up on alot of skills and knowledge around User Experience Design.

 

Agency Ready Assignment 2 Feedback

I have received feedback for assignment two of Agency Ready. For the second term of this unit, I was required to do two-self initiated projects. I chosen to do the self-initiated projects on Sass and Live Chat Box. (JavaScript API)

The feedback received for my self-initiated project was a higher 2:1.

Sass project can be accessed at: Sass Project

Blog Post: Sass Journey

Blog Post: Sass Evaluation

Live Chat can be accessed at: Live Chat Project 

Blog Post: Live Chat Journey 

Blog Post: Live Chat Evaluation

Overall I enjoyed this unit, as it pushed me to learned new things to add to my skill set. This has help me enhance my technical knowledge even further. I will  continuing to  improve myself in the website developement area.

Watch this space!

 

 

Meeting with Reason Digital (UX)

Today the squad had a meeting with Jonny Evans at Reason Digital to discuss the progress of the UX project for their cilent Virgin Pioneers. The squad discuss the eye tracking feedback collected from the users.

Jonny gave some great advice about how to go about creating improvements for the website (Wireframes), which is the final task of the project.

Once the wireframes are done, then as an individual I need to put all the data together into a recorded 10-14 mins presentation of the whole process, that went on during the project. This includes Cognitive Walkthrough, Heuristics, Guerrilla Testing, Eye Tracking and Improvements. (Wireframes)

Watch this space!

Major project(Dissertation) Feedback

I received  my marks back for my final year project. The project has been marked by my supervisor and an external marker. The overall grade I have received was a higher first class. This included the written reports, product(website) and personal meetings.

I am well chuffed, all my hard work paid off!

The major project was done for a digital agency called Mars Spiders, who are based in Central London. This site was built to launch in Russia, currently improvements are being made and the site will be moving onto Mars Spiders Russian domain.

Watch this space!

You can access the current version of the website, by clicking on the image below:

Mars Spiders site (Major project)

User Experience Design(Eye Tracking)

This week the squad have conducted their final testing method for Virgin Pioneers site, which is Tobii eye tracking. The sessions with five users went smoothly. Tobii is an excellent tool that tracks and records data of how the users are making their way around a product(site).

This enable us, as a group to see any similarity between the users flows and whether they are struggling to do the tasks. The final task is to make an mockup wireframes of improvements of the site, covering the main elements discovered in the usability testing.(Guerrilla and Eye Tracking)

Next week the squad have got a meeting with their mentor Jonny Evans at Reason Digital to discuss the usability testing and feedback they received from the users.

Watch this space!

Camp Digital 2016

Today I attended a event called Camp Digital in the heart of Manchester at Town Hall. This event was organised by Sigma. The sponsors for this event were Co-op Digital, CDL, Blu Sky, PR Agency One , Usabilla , Manchester Digital and Real IT.

Camp Digital is a conference that brings together individuals from Digital, Design and UX communities for a series of seminars and workshops, getting an insight on the latest trends in the industry.

The guest speakers of the event were the following:

• Julie Dodd– Digital Strategist, ex Creative Director at BBC, and author of The New Reality.
• Tom Loosemore– Digital Services Director at the C0-op Group and ex Head of Strategy at GDS.
• Molly Watt – Inclusive technology evangelist and co-founder of the Molly Watt Trust.
• Colman Wash– Freelance UX Consultant and owner and founder of UXTraining.com.
• Barry Briggs– Senior UX Architect at the BBC and organiser of NUX.
• Domic Hurst– Leading Digital Services at Liverpool John Moores University.
• Emma Travis– Optimisation Strategist at PRWD.
• Alisan Atvur– Senior R&D User Researcher, Innovation Facilitation at Novo Nordisk.
• Ned Poulter– CEO & Founder, Pole Star Digital.
• Dan Donald– Front End and Interaction Lead at McCann Manchester.
• David Bull– Leading Strategy and Policy Development at New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)
• Jamie Whyte– Trafford Council.
• Nick Brown– AstraZeneca.
• Anders Lundstrom – CEO of the Swedish national pension portal Minpension.se.
• Patrik Malmquist –  Head of development for Minpension.se.
• Christina Li– UX Designer at Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
• Robert Mulder- Director of Business UK & VOC consultant – Usabilla.
• Karina Ibarra– CEO and founder of ABCKit.
• Jeff Coghlan– Founder of Matmi, Board Member of Creative England.

Follow these intellectual professionals and their companies on twitter.

Follow me on twitter: @UmairYaquoob 

A Huge thank you goes to my university tutors and sponsors for allowing students to attend this amazing event.

It’s a great way to network with these professionals!

Camp Digital 2016

 

Portfolio Site- Update

My portfolio website has been updated with latest projects and blog posts.

Do check the projects and blogs out!

Thank you.

You can access my portfolio website by clicking on image below:

New projects and blog posts on Umair Yaquoob’s Portfolio Site

 

Sass

Part of Agency Ready Unit. One of my self-initiated project was to convert Mars Spiders original CSS to Sass. Coding the website with Sass help to improve productivity and efficiency. Also the loading speed of the site in Sass was much quicker under the 2 seconds barrier.

The demonstrator can be viewed by clicking on the image below:

Sass demonstrator can be viewed on Mars Spiders site 

JavaScript API Chat Box

Part of Agency Ready Unit. One of my self-initiated project was to implement a JavaScript API chat box onto Mars Spiders(Major Project) site.

The live demonstator can be viewed by clicking on the image below:

JavaScript API Chat Box live on Mars Spiders site